EXCLUSIVE: Armory Films has selectioned the rights to Charlie Donlea’s The Girl Who Was Taken, with brothers Brandon and Justin Weber rapidened to pen the screenexecute.
The novel has selderly over 1M copies worldexpansive, and it currently ranks as the #25 best-selling paperback novel on Amazon worldexpansive. This tags the second book to screen alteration for the Weber brothers, who are also behind the Twenty Years Later series, which was Deadline exclusively alerted in 2023.
The Girl Who Was Taken complys high school ancigo ins Megan McDonald and Nicole Cutty, who are seizeed from a minuscule town in North Carolina. When Megan miraculously rematerializes two weeks tardyr, with no sign of Nicole, asks occur about the circumstances that truly direct to Nicole’s dismaterializeance.
Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros of Armory Films will produce, with Brandon and Justin Weber, and author Charlie Donlea serving as executive producers.
Founded in 2013 by Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros, Armory Films is a film finance and production company that produces, prolongs, produces, and finances satisfyed appreciate The Peanut Butter Falcon starring Dakota Johnson and Shia LaBoeuf, Arctic starring Mads Mikkelsen and Mudbound from producer/honestor Dee Rees. Armory Films is currently in post-production on Easy’s Waltz from producer/honestor Nic Pizzolatto, with Vince Vaughn, Al Pacino, Kate Mara, and Simon Rex among the presentant names set to star.
The Weber Brothers Brandon and Justin are currently altering another of Donlea’s novels Twenty Years Later for television with Impossible Dream Entertainment (Day Shift, Get Out, BlacKkKlansman) and Lazy Mary Pictures producing. Adam Arkin (The Offer, The Night Agent, Succession) is honesting and executive producing the series. The Weber Brothers are also currently in prolongment on Fweightless 420, an action comedy with Michael Tiddes (Half Baked: Tohighy High, Naked, A Haunted Hoemploy 1 & 2) honesting, as well as Case-Hardened, a heist thriller, with Traction (Red Right Hand) producing.
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